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Women, Law, and Resistance in Northern Nigeria: Understanding the Inadequacies of Western Scholarship

From: Colonial Systems of Control

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This chapter focuses on women in the contemporary northern Nigerian context: their interactions with pluralities of law in northern Nigeria, and the modes of resistance they employ in facing colonial and patriarchal oppressions.

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Viviane Saleh-Hanna

Viviane Saleh-Hanna is assistant professor of Crime and Justice Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.